A new manga is confirmed for anime adaptation and it is Yohko Tamotsu’s modern fantasy manga “Mayonaka no Occult Koumuin” a.k.a. “Midnight Occult Civil Servants.”
Announced on Kadokawa’s official web manga site Comic Newtype, further details including its broadcast schedule, cast and staff will be announced at a later date. For now, it has been noted that with the manga being set in set in Shinjuku, Tokyo, the Shinjuku Ward Office and Shinjuku Convention & Visitors Bureau will provide full cooperation.
In commemoration of the announcement, an illustration was released by the manga author featuring the main characters.
It was in May 2015 that the manga was launched in Kadokawa Shoten’s shōjo manga magazine Monthly Asuka. The series is currently running with 8 volumes released so far. The series is also serialized online on Kadokawa’s Comic Newtype magazine.
Other than the anime adaptation, the series will also have a novelization released. Created by Masumi Suzuki it will be published by Kadokawa under their Kadokawa Horror Bunko label on July 24, 2018.
The story of the series takes focus on the night regional interaction division of a ward office. Established in order to solve occult incidents in the area, the story stars Shin Miyako. A new member of the division, it is discovered that he is able to understand the languages of non-humans that are impossible to understand for a human.
In fact, he has been called “Abe no Seimei,” the most famous and powerful specialist of onmyodo (Japan’s traditional esoteric cosmology) in the Heian period in Japan by one youkai.
Monthly Asuka is a monthly Japanese shōjo manga magazine published by Kadokawa Shoten. It is aimed at teenage girls and much like its sibling publication Shōnen Ace, it places some emphasis on anime tie-ins and spinoffs. The magazine releases a new issue every 24th of the month.
The magazine and other magazines connected to it has released many prominent manga and spin-offs. For manga, it includes “Cowboy Bebop”, “D.N. Angel”, and “Trinity Blood”. As for spin-off works, they include “Code Geass – Lelouch of the Rebellion” and “Neon Genesis Evangelion: Gakuen Datenroku”.
Source: Crunchyroll News